Senior .NET Software Engineer in London

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

SS&C is leading the way. We continue to look for today's and tomorrow's brightest talent, those who embody a spirit to improve not only their lives, but those around them. From college students to seasoned and experienced professionals, we encourage you to apply. SS&C prides itself on hiring diverse, honest, dynamic individuals who value collaboration, accountability, and innovation.

The Opportunity

We are seeking several experienced and highly skilled Senior .NET Software Engineers to join our team of innovative and talented engineers. This is to join an exciting new division of SS&C Technologies, working in our engineering group to enhance and support new and existing products. As a senior software engineer, you'll promote good design and development practices, ensure code quality across the team, and participate in defining technology strategy, occasionally leading innovation or software design initiatives.

What You Will Get To Do:

• Lead collaboration within your engineering team, QA, and Product, facilitating discussions and ensuring effective communication.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, guiding technical approaches, design patterns, and best practices.
• Conduct peer reviews of code, promoting engineering excellence and maintaining high code quality standards across the team.
• Work closely with tech leads, engineers, testers, and auxiliary personnel to deliver cohesive solutions.
• Participate in daily Stand-Ups, change analysis sessions, and technical presentations.
• Collaborate across the organisation, seeking advice and gaining buy-in on proposals and designs.

Feature Design and Implementation:

• Own feature design and implementation end-to-end, ensuring solutions are robust, scalable, and maintainable.
• Develop new features at a high level of quality, delivering thoroughly tested and production-ready code.
• Design, document, and communicate system solutions, ensuring a good balance of time, quality, cost, and performance.
• Coordinate complex multi-part tasks, breaking down technical challenges into manageable components.
• Champion modern software development practices, including Test Driven Development, continuous integration, and deployment.

Code Quality and Technical Excellence:

• Ensure code quality across the team through effective code reviews, technical guidance, and setting standards.
• Understand and actively promote the reduction of technical debt within your product area.
• Take ownership of specific initiatives in innovation or technical debt reduction.
• Provide input as necessary to tool and environment adoption guidance.
• Promote good design and development practices within your team, establishing patterns for maintainability and scalability.

Service and Support:

• Join the engineering out-of-hours on-call rota (typically once every 3-4 weeks) once suitably skilled and appropriately trained.
• Support incident investigation and resolution, contributing to root cause analysis and implementing long-term fixes.

Business and Domain Knowledge:

• Continuously develop your business domain knowledge and understanding of the mutual funds industry.
• Contextualise your technical work for less technical members of the organisation, bridging the gap between engineering and business teams.
• Contribute to technical strategy discussions, bringing practical insights from hands-on development experience.

What You Will Bring:

• Deep technical expertise in C# .NET Core and related open source technologies.
• Object Orientation, SOA, and related design patterns.
• Modern database systems (Microsoft SQL Server, relational database design and SQL).
• Front-end technologies, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Web API design and implementation, concurrency, asynchrony, and parallelism.
• Strong understanding of modern software development practices: agile methodologies, version control, code reviews, continuous integration.
• Proven experience with Test Driven Development - Unit Testing frameworks, mocking frameworks, and patterns for testability.
• Experience in the mutual funds industry or related financial services sectors.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and guide other engineers.

Desirable Experience:

• Experience with TypeScript in commercial environments.
• SPAs and responsive web development using Angular.
• Enterprise messaging systems (e.g. NServiceBus/Azure Service Bus).
• Cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure.
• Containerisation (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Blockchain development and associated Cryptographic concepts.
• Knowledge of mutual fund trading, settlement, reconciliation, lifecycle management and regulation within the context of the distributor/platform, Transfer Agent (TA), and fund/asset management industry.

Person Specification:

• Natural Leader: Leads by example within teams, facilitating effective communication and driving collaborative problem-solving.
• Mentor and Guide: Passionate about developing others, providing clear direction and support to junior and mid-level engineers.
• Quality-Focused: Committed to delivering high-quality, maintainable code and driving engineering excellence across the team.
• Excellent Communicator: Able to articulate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders across all levels of the organisation.
• Proactive and Ownership-Minded: Takes initiative in identifying and addressing technical challenges, owning features from conception to production.
• Team Player: Thrives on teamwork and collaboration, contributing positively to team dynamics and fostering an inclusive environment.
• Business-Minded: Understands the importance of aligning technical decisions with business objectives and delivering value to the end investor.
• Passionate About Technology: Demonstrates genuine enthusiasm for software engineering, continuous learning, and staying current with industry developments.
• Attention to Detail: Ensures thoroughness in implementation, testing, and documentation.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model.
• Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement, including access to SS&C University.
• Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme.
• Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff.
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity.
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised throughout your career.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

Thank you for your interest in SS&C!